Jacob I. Ramsey, 20

Air Force, Airman 1st Class

Based: Ft. Hood, Texas

712th Air Support Operations

Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom

Died: April 10, 2009

Kabul, Afghanistan

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Hesperia

High School: Hesperia High School (Hesperia)

Burial: Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside

The Department of Defense has reported that Ramsey died April 10 from a non-combat related incident in Kabul, Afghanistan. The circumstances surrounding his death are under investigation, military officials said.

Bryce E. Gautier, 04/10/2009

Francis L. Toner IV, 03/27/2009

17 memories of Jacob I. Ramsey

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I met Jacob from my fiance, and they were great friends.He was such a funny, dorky, kind hearted man and would always make me laugh when I would get stupid text messages and pictures from him lol..I remember when I was in Texas and my Fiance didn't have a car yet and Jacob said he'd take us to go get a rental car even though he had a baseball game he wanted to go to that day. While my fiance was getting the car I sat outside talking to Jacob and told him that he should have just went to his game instead of taking us to get a car and he just looked at me and said "Drea you and Miles are in love and we all need to make sacrifices for love" He thought of others before himself. Miles and I will truly miss him and will definitely never forget him. RIP Ramsey xoxoxo

” — Andrea Kim, April 15, 2009 at 4:43 p.m.

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My name is Isaac Isaiah-Luke Ramsey. I'm Jacob's older brother. I didn't realize that this page existed until today, the 13th of May, 2009. Currently I'm writing from Mosul, Iraq, in the MWR. I was perusing the photos of one Drea Kim,and I came across a website that she had left as a comment on her photos of Jacob. I heard the news at 1:00 in the morning on 11APR09, though it really didn't hit me until we opened the casket, I knew that I was going to be in for a rough road. Now that the funeral is over, and I'm deployed, things seem to be back in order. But the saddness haunts me still, and the hopelessness I feel, the despair over what happened can't be expressed in any human language, and the extent of how unfair it seems to be that after the death of my brother, we have to continue living, but we do. It seems that the death of a human being isn't important to stop time, to shake history. How wrong it seems that my brother won't be remembered in the history books for countless ages to come. If it wasn't for those in power, my brother would probably still be alive, because he never would have had to be deployed. And if it wasn't for those terrorists in the Middle East,so many more grieving mothers would still have their babies. The world is unfair beyond question, beyond reason. I'll miss my little brother very much. At least I got to spend the last year of his life with him. Whether that was Providential or not, I don't know. He was a caring young man, and throughout my life I knew in my heart that he was a better man than myself. He was inwardly good; I was merely doing the things I did because they appeared right, and I didn't want to cause a rift in the social fabric of my surroundings. Always the better man. Jacob will forever be missed. Nothing can replace him. If there is any way that I can immortalize him, I will. He doesn't deserve to be forgotten by the rest of the world.

R.I.P. Jacob I. Ramsey
07-12-88 04-10-09
Kabul, Afghanistan

” — Isaac Ramsey, May 13, 2009 at 10:50 a.m.

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